Before Queen Elizabeth became queen, she was a prisoner. Queen Elizabeth did not have the perfect fantasy life that you think a princess would have. She, like many, had struggled through her childhood years. But, even though Queen Elizabeth had a very hard childhood she is now known as one of the greatest, most influential queens of all time.
Queen Elizabeth had an extremely scarring childhood. On September 7, 1533 Queen Elizabeth was born (Hanson). Queen Elizabeth’s birth was one of the most exciting political events in the sixteenth century European history (Hanson). She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Moral and Greenblatt). When Queen Elizabeth was two years old, something terrible occurred within her
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Queen Elizabeth loved music and enjoyed listening to it. Queen Elizabeth's reign supported great musicians such as Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe (“Queen Elizabeth I Biography”). Queen Elizabeth had seen the troubles of royal marriage from her father so she decided not to marry. She was not interested in sharing her power (“Queen Elizabeth I Biography”). Even though Queen Elizabeth did not have someone to rule with her, she was very successful by herself. Queen Elizabeth’s reign was referred to as the “Elizabethan England or Golden Age”(“Queen Elizabeth I Biography”). Queen Elizabeth’s era was an “era of peace and prosperity”(“Queen Elizabeth I Biography”). Queen Elizabeth gave one of her most famous speeches, “The Golden Speech”, in 1601 to the parliament(“Queen Elizabeth I Biography”). Her speech to a look back at her reign. In Queen Elizabeth’s Golden speech she said “Of myself I must say this, I was never any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait, fast holding prince, nor yet a waster. My heart was never set on worldly goods, but for my subjects’ …show more content…
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